Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"It was the largest hotel on the island outside of Bar Harbor, with 35 rooms on three upper floors and a series of public rooms and kitchens on the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… she was often asked to perform at private dinner parties. The theater lasted less than 20 years and closed in 1931."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… balls, musicales and lectures, yachting parties, horse shows, tennis tournaments, and an array of clubs which included swimming, canoe, and golf…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… the island in any way? …A company of interested parties could buy at a small cost the parts of the Island less desirable for building purposes."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"Carrying sporting parties to places where porpoise and seal may be shot. Guns and ammunition furnished when desired."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"Garden Party at the Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1935Mount Desert Island Historical Society The summer community bustled with leisure…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"The island switchboard was located in the rear of the Dark Harbor Post Office from 1902 to c. 1915. The switchboard moved to a small house on…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… walking on the stone beaches, family bon fire parties, and indoor card and board games, especially Bridge, Canasta and jig saw puzzles. St."

Frye Island Historical Society

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Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"… the first apparent time, the vote was split along party lines, with the Democratic-Republicans generally supporting separation and Federalists…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Benjamin Kimball, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… "When the 22 Regiment left Bangor for Ship Island he was the tallest & handsomest man in the regiment." Martin's illustration of Kimball and…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… would have to port in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. Although the fee was minimal, the time it took to port in each state…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… landownership could lead them to bestow multiple parties with rights to a single place. The eighteenth-century proprietors, however, insisted that…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… prepared for arbitration by a neutral third party. US and British officials presented the king of the Netherlands with voluminous documentation…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"… Library collection from the Socialist Workers Party headquarters in New York City dated March 13,1895 to Protasio Neri showed him to be involved in…"

McArthur Public Library

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Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"… /Ocean Ranger/ and the bills of laden and Charty Party for the/ Lemuel Peters/ are all on file at the Holt House."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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